Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 21:17:34 +0000 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <rssh@cam.grad.ipri.kiev.ua> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What we will do with latex2html ? Message-ID: <345B9C6E.B8570ED4@cam.grad.ipri.kiev.ua> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971101095551.19155B-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > ? In this year was 3 attempts to add latex2html in ports collection: > ? > ? ports/3940 Jun 23 1997 Ruslan Shevchenko. ?Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua? > ? ports/4103 Jul 22 1997 Frank Meissner ?meissner@tu-harburg.d400.de? > ? ports/4496 Sep 8 1997 Brett Taylor > ? ?brett@pelton.physics.montana.edu? > ? > ? Now all of this ports is outdated. > > My port is not what I would consider out of date. It is the last stable "checksum mismath" after typing make. I wrote you about this. Yesterday. > release of latex2html, latex2html-97.1. There is a constantly changing > development version out there, but I don't think it's a good idea to use > that as a port - I'd prefer to have the stable version. Alternatively we > could have 2 ports, like we do for gimp, the development and stable ------------------ in generally not bad. > version. 1. We can disable checksum, and check integrity of archive, by checking output of tar -tzf operation. > > ? 1. Are anybody from authors of previous ports want to > ? be ports-maintainers of latex2html ? > > I'm happy to be the maintainer if someone will commit it. > Please, inform me, when you receive usable port (ports). 1. please, not forgott, that prefix may be not /usr/local (I have /usr/disk1/local on one of my mashines), and it's must checked in package. 2. And mode with documentation. > ? 2. If not, i will report it during week, and send it to > ? ports collection, if anybody with commit privilegies, > ? will look on this port in finite time. > > As noted above I don't think this is worth doing w/ the development > version unless we keep separate development and stable ports. > It's work for you now ;) > ********************************************************* > Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu > http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ > > "Give a man a beer and he wastes an hour > Teach a man to brew and he wastes a lifetime"
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